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On the date
Tuesday, November 15, 1949
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The Headlines
CITY RENT LAW HIT BY U. S. EXPEDITER IN COURT AS INVALID; State Appeals Tribunal Is Told That Sharkey Code Clashes With Federal Statute NEW YORK DEFENDS ACT Eviction Curb Is Held Within Municipal Province -- Woods Is Called Landlords' Ally City Rent Law Fought as Invalid By U. S. Expediter in State Court
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Slipping Around
Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely
#1 at the box office
Jolson Sings Again †
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Gerhart Hauptmann (1862)
- William Herschel (1738)
- Erwin Rommel (1891)
- Mahmoud Abbas (1935)
- Georgia O'Keeffe (1887)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
27,961 days ago
(76 years, 221 days)